Example sentences of "n't matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't mattered then whether she went on or back . |
| 2 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 3 | It had n't mattered what he said . |
| 4 | Miss Malabedeely had looked embarrassed , discovered on her knees like that , but it had n't mattered because of her niceness . |
| 5 | But , even with all his experience , he had n't been able to wait , and it had n't mattered , nothing had been important then except being together . |
| 6 | Clothes had n't mattered for years , of course , but towards the end of the eighties , the phrases power-dressing and anti-stress eating program had filtered through to her and now Alex dressed and ate for every occasion . |
| 7 | It does n't matter if your Executor stands to benefit from the Will . |
| 8 | Here the confusions or uncertainties are the point of the passage : it does n't matter that the particulars of the caption are missing since this sort of thing was always happening . |
| 9 | These mistakes mattered — whereas ‘ in the arts it does n't matter if you foul up . ’ |
| 10 | They can always start again and it does n't matter . |
| 11 | ‘ Does n't matter — I could have done it , ’ said David , pointedly . |
| 12 | She kissed Lucy and it did n't matter that somehow her lips landed only on her cheek . |
| 13 | You forget to eat , and you think it does n't matter , and I ca n't eat when you 're around . |
| 14 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |
| 15 | It did n't matter , thought Susan . |
| 16 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 17 | ‘ We-ell whoops a daisy , how you drove me crazy , ’ sang Nick , pirouetting and waving the bottles in the air , ‘ but I guess it does n't matter anymore . ’ |
| 18 | In fact , it does n't matter what the thought is , what predicate I ascribe to them , just that they are the object of some kind of thought . |
| 19 | ‘ That does n't matter . |
| 20 | And yet , when disaster strikes , it does n't matter where it is , or what sport is taking place , the spotlight swivels to capture the emotion , the excitement , the sadness of the moment . |
| 21 | It did n't matter that there was an uncomfortable breeze throughout the week , an overcast and threatening sky and a lively court . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
| 23 | It did n't matter . |
| 24 | Suddenly , it did n't matter what Marjorie did . |
| 25 | Still , it did n't matter , we spent the days rolling the hay . |
| 26 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 27 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 28 | It does n't matter . |
| 29 | It does n't matter who wrote it , I like it . ’ |
| 30 | It does n't matter what the source is , ’ he added . |